Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sunday 23 July 2006 08:32, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Andreas Kleen wrote: > > > > > You need to use iommu=soft swiotlb=force > > > > The standard IOMMU is also broken on VIA, but forced swiotlb should > > work. > > Didn't work :-( swiotlb=force is unfortunately broken right now. But whi

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-23 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Andreas Kleen wrote: You need to use iommu=soft swiotlb=force The standard IOMMU is also broken on VIA, but forced swiotlb should work. Didn't work :-( Excepts from the log: Bootdata ok (command line is BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.17-1-smp ro root=902 iommu=soft swiotl

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-22 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Andreas Kleen wrote: > > You need to use iommu=soft swiotlb=force > > The standard IOMMU is also broken on VIA, but forced swiotlb should > work. Didn't work :-( Excepts from the log: Bootdata ok (command line is BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.17-1-smp ro root=902 iommu=soft swiotlb=force single) ... skge et

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-12 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 06:09, Kevin Brown wrote: > Andreas Kleen wrote: > > If it helps I can do a proper patch that only bounces IO > 4GB through > > the copy. > > For the A8V series of boards, that will almost certainly be just fine, > because as far as I know you can't populate them with more

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-11 Thread Kevin Brown
Andreas Kleen wrote: If it helps I can do a proper patch that only bounces IO > 4GB through the copy. For the A8V series of boards, that will almost certainly be just fine, because as far as I know you can't populate them with more than 4G of memory anyway. If someone has more than 4G of me

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-11 Thread Andreas Kleen
Spamming bug robot dropped from cc list. Am Mi 12.07.2006 04:46 schrieb Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OK, here are the results with iommu=force. All of these are copied > down > by hand, so please forgive any transcription errors: You need to use iommu=soft swiotlb=force The standa

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
OK, here are the results with iommu=force. All of these are copied down by hand, so please forgive any transcription errors: 2.6.12[1]: Last line displayed on screen is "ata1: dev 0 ATA max UDMA/133 390721968 sectors, lba48". Then it sits there. Scrolling with shift-pgup/pgdown works. Control-Alt-

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-09 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Andi Kleen wrote: > Is that a board with VIA chipset? Yep. > > VIA doesn't seem to support PCI accesses with addresses >4GB and they also > don't have a working GART IOMMU. > > It will likely work with iommu=force I'll give this a try I do get a line in dmesg which reads: PCI-DMA: Disabl

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-08 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-07 23:28]: > Is that a board with VIA chipset? Yes, according to lspci, there's a VIA K8T800Pro and VT8237. :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge :00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T800Pro Host Bridge

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 07 July 2006 23:18, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:52:38 +0200 > Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > We received the following bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/341801 > > > > | I have a Asus A8V with 4GB of RAM. When I turn on the hardware memory > >

Re: skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-07 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:52:38 +0200 Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We received the following bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/341801 > > | I have a Asus A8V with 4GB of RAM. When I turn on the hardware memory > | hole in the BIOS, the skge driver prints out this message: > |

skge error; hangs w/ hardware memory hole

2006-07-03 Thread Martin Michlmayr
We received the following bug report at http://bugs.debian.org/341801 | I have a Asus A8V with 4GB of RAM. When I turn on the hardware memory | hole in the BIOS, the skge driver prints out this message: | skge hardware error detected (status 0xc00) | and then does not work. Setting debug=16